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It’s a Friday morning in early January when Adrian Zenz gets up from the desk in the corner of his bedroom to turn up the heat. It’s 17 degrees below zero outside, and his quiet neighborhood in Minnesota’s Twin Cities has been blanketed in a thin layer of snow.
Dressed in a button-down shirt with rectangular glasses and cupping a warm mug of coffee, Zenz doesn’t look like much of a rabble rouser. A German evangelical Christian, his plans for the weekend include taking his "pande
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